Ernie Gehr "Surveillance"
Mad. Sq. Art
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The Madison Square Park Conservancy presents a video art installation by noted avant-garde filmmaker Ernie Gehr. Four interrelated “digital playgrounds” comprise Gehr’s Surveillance, a new four-channel high-definition video installation created in and about historic Madison Square Park. Inspired by the proliferation of security cameras in public life, Gehr’s commission for Madison Square Park turns the aesthetics of surveillance into visual poetry, in an absorbing tribute to this treasured urban oasis.
Gehr was born in 1941 and grew up in Milwaukee, WI. He lives and works in New York City. Since 1967, his experimental films have cemented his place as one of the most influential and internationally celebrated members of a generation of artists whose collective innovations in filmmaking revolutionized the medium’s position in the field of visual art. Gehr has exhibited extensively and to great acclaim since the late 1960s at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and many others.
Surveillance will be on view from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., in the Video Gallery, located just south of the park's fountain.
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from April 09, 2010 to May 14, 2010
On view from 11 am. to 7 pm., in the Video Gallery, located just south of the park's fountain.